Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry
The 2025 Epistolary Challenge Winners
We’re thrilled to congratulate Shradha Singh, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Epistolary Challenge! Her poem “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were moved by…
2025 Epistolary Challenge THIRD PLACE WINNER: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST” By Sullivan Summer
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST“ by Sullivan Summer. What starts as an ordinary lost-and-found notice—one missing Scrabble tile, a letter…
Frontier Poetry is excited to congratulate the Frontier Editorial team’s pick for the THIRD PLACE winner of the 2025 Epistolary Challenge: “NEW BULLETIN BOARD POST“ by Sullivan Summer. What starts as an ordinary lost-and-found notice—one missing Scrabble tile, a letter…
January 2026 Deadlines: 9 Contests and Magazines
New year, new opportunities to share your work with the world! This month in particular, there are options for visual media and poetry pairings, a chance to publish your chapbook, and one residency. Crafting your authentic art is the goal,…
New year, new opportunities to share your work with the world! This month in particular, there are options for visual media and poetry pairings, a chance to publish your chapbook, and one residency. Crafting your authentic art is the goal,…
Poetry: “To My Very Catholic Father” by Ziyuan Tang
Ziyuan Tang attempts some pretty ambitious maneuvers in “To My Very Catholic Father.” Most poems about poems can stray toward the pedantic or else they’re academic, self-referential, and stodgy, but Tang is neither; the meticulous repetition and slick wordplay sometimes…
Ziyuan Tang attempts some pretty ambitious maneuvers in “To My Very Catholic Father.” Most poems about poems can stray toward the pedantic or else they’re academic, self-referential, and stodgy, but Tang is neither; the meticulous repetition and slick wordplay sometimes…
Read Our Award Winning Chapbooks
Opportunity Cost
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
IN THE YEAR OF OUR MAKING & UNMAKING
read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
Shadow Black
read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Jericho Brown
// by Naima Tokunow //
How Often I Have Chosen Love
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Joshua Roark
// by Xiao Yue Shan //
